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Cold
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Note: all versions are denoted by "Major.Minor-PatchLevel". Each index
line includes the version, the date of release (in brackets), and
contributors to that version.
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1.0-36 [10-Jul-97] Brandon
* fixed bug which was saying #0 ($sys) was invalid (Brandon)
1.0-35 [09-Jul-97] Brandon
* fixed a bug in compiling $names in textdumps.
* fixed a bug with #-xx becoming #xx again.
1.0-34 [07-Jul-97] Brandon
* removed descendants()--its algorithm is inherently flawed and
may misorder objects if a parent loop exists and parents are
on different levels (Brandon)
* changed textdumping to use a variation on the original scheme
with searches, but instead using Hash (Brandon)
* adjusted configure a little more, to handle ~user escapes
on systems where ~user escapes does not work (Brandon)
1.0-33 [03-Jul-97] Brandon, Brad
* Negative objnums are allowed, and now represent invalid aspects
of the respective number (so #-1525 would represent the objnum
for an invalid object #1525. This is used when textdumping) (Brandon)
* fixed bug/default which caused all warnings to never appear
when using coldcc (the -W option was always on) (Brandon)
* pause() while atomic will now act like resume() (Brandon)
* coldcc will always run atomically (Brandon)
* changed how UCASE/LCASE work for better cacheing (Brandon)
* Fixed a problem in configure (Brandon)
* niggled here and there from purify warnings (Brandon/Brad)
1.0-32 [01-Jul-97] Miro, Brandon, others
* Crufted up configure to include install information. Crufted
up base makefile, install actually installs now (Brandon)
* Cleaned up some ANSI incompatabilities (Brandon)
* Added 'dnsserv' which is a seperate server running on port 1153,
A cold server can connect to this and have it do DNS lookups.
This allows for asynchronous lookups direct from the database
using network sockets, instead of hacking a fork/pipe system
directly into the driver--for db implementation help, see:
http://ice.cold.org/bin/display?target=dns
(Brandon)
* fixed bug in scatter assignments (Patrick, Miro, Brad)
* updated list_union() to use Hash in the top-end situations
where more than twelve elements exist overall (Miro)
1.0-31 [26-Jun-97] Brandon
* fixed bug with bufidx().. was using the wrong var and reading
out of its memory bounds (Brandon)
* fixed float parsing a bit, [1..2] is now functional again,
bad floats '2.' now throw ~parse, and ints ending a line
will not become a float (Brandon)
* searching no longer guarantee's redundancy checks--it only
guarantee's it in the cache--if an object is swapped to disk
its search counter is reset. Before now searching was making
objects dirty, and causing a lot of unecessary writing. This
will effect anything which uses searching as a means to only
check an object once. (Brandon)
* added an internal data type Hash which is a stripped version
of the Dict, without keys (Brandon)
* rewrote ancestors() because of the searching change (using Hash
instead), also added in breadth ordered as well--send a symbol
argument of 'depth or 'breadth to specify which order. Added
descendants(), which is always breadth (Brandon).
* changed textdump to use descendants() instead of search (Brandon)
1.0-30 [26-Jun-97] Brandon
* fixed bug with [un]bind_port() and open_connection(): stack wasn't
cleaning up correctly (Brandon)
* fixed potential (but not likely unless we used C threads) SEGV
bug in object cache handling (Brandon)
* added frob_class() to devalue class(), class() still works
but frob_class() should be used in lieu..more standard (Brandon)
1.0-29 [28-May-97] Brad, Brandon
* fixed a memory leak in float parsing (Brad)
* added -W flag to shutoff warnings in coldcc (Brandon)
* updated the VEIL module to function per new specs (Brandon)
* fixed minor problems in configure (Brandon)
* fixed leak in dict_union() (Brandon)
* fixed some method decompiling of things (parenthesis) (Brandon)
* fixed frame depth for paused/suspended tasks (Brandon)
* fixed listgraft() wierdness (Brad)
1.0-28 [29-Apr-97] Brian, Miro, Brandon
* fixed bug in inherit_var() (Brian)
* fixed bug in bufidx() (Miro)
* fixed buggy method_bytecode (Miro)
* fixed bug in += with STR on the left and a SYM on the right (Brian)
* fixed my braindead changes to cache searching, by simply reverting
back to how it was--will re-write (and debug) in p29 (Brandon)
1.0-27 [10-Apr-97] Miro, Brian
* fixed a bug, removed an extra cache_discard that completely bombed
the server if the object got swapped while task still used the
method (Miro)
* Added a traceback logging means (Miro)
* Fixed deallocing things in wrong order in frame_return (Miro)
* found minor logic bug with frename() (Brian)
* fixed a bug where frames were cleaning up information before the
traceback could be generated (Miro)
* wrapped up default_var() and inherited_var() -- no cacheing of
results occurs with inherited_var(), use it wisely (Brian)
1.0-26 [22-Mar-97] Miro, Brandon
* Fixed crypt() and match_crypted() for 64bit OS's (Brandon)
* minor bug in fromliteral() fixed, in regard to handled frobs (Miro)
* changed how searching is handled, to reduce collisions and not
overflow. Also changed it so an object is dirty if obj->dirty
OR obj->search == cur_search. (Brandon)
1.0-25 [10-Mar-97] Brandon, Miro, Brad/Ted
* new mechanism for type handling: the basic methods are called via
function pointers, so you don't have to hunt for switches through
the driver for every type you want to add (Miro)
* added frobs with method call handler (Miro)
* added frob_value() and frob_method() (Miro)
* fixed a bug with match_begin and a blank seperator (Miro)
* toerr() was accepting a string, changed it to accept a symbol.
This is a nearly never used function, so I hope it won't impact
much, but this change was necessary (Brandon).
* fixed /= ordering args wrong (Brandon)
* added round() for floats (rounds to the nearest whole, rather
than simply truncating) (Brandon)
* fixed a bug with parsing large floats from literals (Brad/Ted)
* fixed ;1e-9 bug (Miro)
* fixed spelling error (Miro)
1.0-24 [10-Feb-97] Brandon, Jon Lambert
* The third argument to list_method() now is a bitfield with
the following flags: 1=Full Parens, 2=Full Braces; which
can be OR'ed as appropriate (Brandon)
* updated configure scripts to handle newer OS's (Brandon)
* Crufted up some code segments here and there (Brandon)
* if the driver dies at startup it'll print to both errlog and
stderr (Brandon)
* New native $string.html_escape(), does the minimal necessary
(i.e. escapes '<', '>' and '&'). (Brandon)
* Added new (awaited) functions listidx() and bufidx() (Brandon)
* Fixed a bug where `[buf] in `[buf] would wrongly fail
in certain situations (Brandon)
* Added new genesis options -u and -g to specify user and group
to setuid to, when running as root. (Brandon)
* Redid all genesis arguments to allow for easier expanding.
Full list is (as always) available with genesis -h.
* Added the ability to prebind network ports, if running as root.
Use the -p option, formatted as [ADDR]:PORT. UDP ports are
specified as with bind_port() by specifying a negative port number.
ADDR must be a valid IP address--not a domain name. (Brandon)
* Minor bugfix where objects were not dirtied when the objname
was changed (Brandon)
* fixed a bug with fchmod() (it was getting its args confused) (Brandon)
* Made the path argument to fremove() required. (Brandon)
* Any 'stat' info returned from a file function will now format the
file mode as an octal number in a string (Brandon)
* a touch more cleanup with Win32 and Win32 docs (Jon)
1.0-23 [4-Feb-97] Miro, Brandon, Jon Lambert
* Wrapped up Win32 support in the source (Jon Lambert)
* Fixed bug in task cancelling (Miro)
* Fixed minor bug in split() (if last element was blank, and "b"
flag was given, it still wouldn't show up) (Brandon)
* Standardized arg ... [more]; format to follow scatter assignments,
will accept both formats but decompile as @more now. (Miro)
* fixed a bug in join() (Brandon)
1.0-22 [15-Jan-97] Brian, Miro, Brandon
* fixed corruption bug in scatter assignments causing crashes (Miro)
* fixed leak in scatter assignment (Miro)
* fixed defaults for cache width/depth so they initialized correctly.
* fixed a minor inconsistency in strfmt() with %e (Brian)
1.0-21 [21-Dec-96] Brandon
* fixed a problem with buf_to_str() -- its less efficient again, but
is at least stable.
* strsub() $string.replace() accept the same 'flags' as strsed()
* at William Colburn's suggested updated the way the driver figures
out it's own hostname.
1.0-20 [20-Dec-96] Brandon, Miro, Brad Roberts, Brian Buchanan
* $network.hostname()/.ip() now return the machine's primary
hostname/ip, if no argument is given (Brandon)
* Corrected logic in string_prep() and list_prep()--it would not
function correctly on specific subrange() situations (Miro)
* Run-time execution debugging hooks added (Miro)
* Changed string_prep() to always NULL terminated (Brian)
* Fixed a bug in tosym() and creating 'idents' and hashes (Brandon)
* Fixed a minor problem in buf_to_str() reported by Brad (Brandon)
* rewrote/optimized buf_to_str to reduce copies (Brandon)
* Optimized (| .. |) (Miro)
* Added anticipate_assignment() (Miro)
* Added scatter assignments (Miro)
* Added default assignment (?=) (Miro)
* fixed some stack-corrupting bugs in file-ops (Brandon/Miro/Brad)
* tweaked how frob-methods are chosen (Brian)
1.0-19 [14-Nov-96] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Signifigantly sped up symbols and methods lookups. (Miro)
* added 'config()' to be used to set task limits. Currently recognized
limits: 'datasize 'fork 'calldepth 'recursion 'objswap
Only 'calldepth does anything, at the moment. (Brandon)
* Fixed a bug in $list.transpose() (Miro)
1.0-18 [05-Nov-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Included some of Brian's fixes that I accidentally left out of p17
1.0-17 [04-Nov-96] Miroslav Silovic, Brian Buchanan
* Included a few scripts in 'bin' again (Brandon)
* Fixed unkillable object bug caused by reprogramming methods (Brian)
* Fixed method_info() to find local methods only (Brian)
* Fixed add_method() goofing flags and access for methods
overriding nonoverridable methods (Brian)
* Changed call_method() to treat method calls from within frob-access
methods to this() as if they were calls to frob methods (Brian)
* Fixed find_method() and find_next_method() to find frob methods
overriding nonoverridable methods (Brian)
* Fixed unkillable object bug caused by passing to ROOT or DRIVER
access methods (Brian)
* The backup won't hang with heavy-duty task running (Miro)
* (1).method() decompiles with parentheses around 1 (this happens
only if argument is an integer, which is valid behaviour) (Miro)
* Crash on attempt to decompile objnum has been fixed (Miro)
* $list.sort added (Miro)
* $dictionary.union fixed to insert keys in consistant order (Miro)
* UDP networking added (hooked into the existing functions) (Miro)
* ("string" * INTEGER) returns string repeated INTEGER times (Miro)
1.0-16 [24-Oct-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed some bugs with $string.dbquote_explode()
* Fixed a bug with forked methods, they were not cleaning up the
stack and returning the task id.
* Fixed MINLONG, now references LONG_MIN from the newer limits.h
1.0-15 [22-Oct-96] Miroslav Silovic, Brad Roberts, Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed a few leaks pointed out after running through pure. (Miro)
* Forked methods now work. Just set the flag +forked on the method,
and it will fork off when called (Brandon).
* Added $string.word(str, x), equivalent to explode(str)[x] (Brandon)
* Added $string.dbquote_explode(), explodes a quoted string in
the common relational database quoted export format. Primarily
exploding a quoted string, where quotes doubled within a quoted
segment are escaped, Example:
"this string" and "" 1 "this 14"" screen"
=> ["this string", "and", "", "1", "this 14\" screen"]
This used to be in the PROGRESS module (Brandon)
* Fixed small bug where rename_method() was looking up the method
to rename to in all the ancestors, and not just on the object
as it should have done. (Brandon)
* Included new $math module with extended math functions. (Miro)
* match_crypted() needed some diddling with the OS_SUPPORT stuff,
to handle FreeBSD MD5 passwords. (Brandon)
* '=/' bug fixed (Brandon)
* fixed small but impacting problem with writing MINLONG to disk (Brad)
* Added 'frob flag to method access. Frob methods exist in a different
name scope from all other methods, and are executed first if called
from a frob. Note: this is currently simply an anticipation
implementation for forward compatability. The designed implementation
will allow two methods of the same name to exist on one object (in
different scope). Currently you cannot do this, only one method of
either scope may exist on a single object, for the moment. (Miro).
* Fixed where line-counting got off with simple catch statements,
only works in the general case of non-nested catches. Line-counting
will still get off if you have nested catches. (Brandon)
1.0-14 [22-Sep-96] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* at one point I had an odd idea to allow people to submit bytecode
as well as lists of strings. I adjusted the method handling
functions in anticipation of this, and later realized what a
nightmare this would be. To cleanup the changes I have made the
following alterations:
compile() => deleted--nobody uses this anyway
decompile() => list_method()
add_method()
del_method()
get_method() => method_bytecode()
The only things this will effect are methods which call decompile(),
which will need to be changed to call list_method() instead. If
you used get_method() change it as well (most people did not know
it existed).
* Changed configure to read the module configuration from
src/modules/mod.conf, rather than having it hardcoded (Brandon)
* coldcc now decompiles with object numbers by default, not mapping
everything to a name (it still binds the name). You use '-#' to
turn off objnum printing over objname (i.e. -# to get the older
behaviour). Objnums are much faster than names--this is noticed
most on larger db's (10MB+ text) (Brandon)
* after much trevail a small but impacting db corruption bug was
found (in regard to floats). (Miro)
* Fixed a ~fpe bug reported by Brad
* Added ~inf which can be thrown if the resulting value is Inf or NaN
* removed descendants() -- this is better implemented in ColdC
due to its intensive and laggy nature (you can pause()) (Brandon)
* added task_info() -- make sure to bind it to something (Brandon)
* new function dict_values() (Brandon)
* SHA-1 encryption module provided by Jon Callas <jon@worldbenders.com>,
written by Paul C. Kocher (read the copyright in shs.c for full
information). Changed crypt() to use SHA-1 encryption based off
FreeBSD's MD5 crypt(). Older DES encrypted passwords can still
be matched with 'match_crypted()' (it hooks into the system's
crypt() if it exists). (Brandon)
* fixed a leak in method_info() (Miro)
* optimized fgetstring() (Brandon)
* allow "\t" like "\n" etc, when converting to buffers, need to
eventually change this to be the actual characters. (Brandon)
* changed fread() on text to eat all meta characters (it converts
\t to a space). (Brandon)
1.0-13 [20-Aug-96] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* binary database patch to fix wild db growth (Miro)
* toerr() was always throwing (my stupidity: Brandon)
* added match_crypted(), this was supposed to have been done a
while ago. Use this to match crypt()'ed strings--it handles
varying cases (Brandon).
1.0-12 [13-Aug-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Added bitwise native methods to $integer, in the cdc module.
* our own inet_aton() is added for those systems that do not have it,
courtesy of Luc Girardin <girardin@hei.unige.ch>.
* the pre-generated salt in crypt_string() was one element too short,
which caused it to overflow into other memory.
* fixed the textdump reading quote problem
* open_connection() was not returning after it threw an error (bad)
1.0-11 [2-Aug-96] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Added the ability to bind to seperate and multiple IP addresses
with 'bind_port()' (Brandon)
Because of this, the following has changed:
bind_port() accepts a second argument (the ip addr to bind to)
connection.connect() is called with the arguments:
client_ip, server_ip, socket;
Before now it was just client_ip and socket. This will require
a change to existing databases.
* Found an old bug which was hanging objects, if a method
threw an error due to method protection object references
were not cleaned up in the cache. (Miro)
1.0-10 [26-Jul-96] Miroslav Silovic, Brad Roberts, Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed a problem where natives would get frobbed if you
recompiled them. (Brandon)
* Lots of leaks plugged in coldcc. (Miro, Brandon, Brad)
* Fixed a problem with match_regexp() regexp() and their native
counterparts. (Brandon)
* Some more float problems fixed. (Miro)
* Added coldcc to print what it is (de)compiling, '-o' will turn this off.
* Tweaked a few things (configure, some defaults) (Brandon)
* Added new operators: map, filter, find, hash (Miro)
* Changed the order of arguments for the following functions,
shown with the new order (Brandon):
match_begin(str, key, ...)
match_pattern(str, key, ...)
match_template(str, key, ...)
match_regexp(str, key, ...)
regexp(str, key, ...)
strsed(str, key, ...)
* Fixed NULL usage to cast to char, cleans up warnings in Linux,
also included fix for handling SIGPIPE again (Brad)
1.0-9 [13-Jul-96] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* logs/genesis.run contains the pid of genesis, and is removed when
genesis exits.
* Fixed a few things that cropped up when compiling on other systems
* Added some compression code to the binary database (Miro)
* Added asyncrynous backups to binarydb (Miro)
* Added anti-bloat measures (Miro)
* Calling 'backup()' will now initiate the backup, but will likely
return long before the backup is complete. When a backup is finished
the driver calls $sys.backup_done().
* New function and native dict_union()/$dictionary.union() (Miro)
1.0-8 [] Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Added 'join()', hooked into $list.join() (native)
* Finished 'graft()' functions for string, list and buffer, will
not hook into natives.
* Found the source of binary databases bloating (Miro)
* A new #ifdef option has been added to toggle a fast db which will
bloat faster, or a tighter lower-bloat db which is slower. (look
in include/defs.h).
* Located what is causing the stack to be corrupted by critical
expressions (Miro).
* $sys.signal() now only receives ONE argument, before it received
two. The first argument is the signal name, as a symbol.
* New CDC natives: $string.trim(), $string.split() and
$dictionary.[add/del]_elem()
* new #define in defs.h PROFILE_EXECUTE, turn this on and the driver
will record how often each method is called, dumping to 'errfile'
when its tables are maxed. May cruft this up over time. Do NOT
use this as a regular compilation method.
* Lots of changes, file rearrangement and general symbol abstraction
additions (i.e. 'SOCKET' instead of 'int'), for easier porting to
Win32.
* Many more definitions and abstractions, rewrote defs.h, a lot more
cruft. Changed sequence of all includes, updated all source files,
should only need to #include defs.h now, and possibly cdc_pcode.h,
cdc_db.h and a few others. Did some file rearrangement too.
* Abstracted all data types used in the driver wherever possible,
replacing 'int' and all of the other common C types:
Bool => true or false value
Byte => tiny integer signed value
uByte => tiny integer unsigned value
Char => character signed value
uChar => character unsigned value
Short => small integer signed value
uShort => small integer unsigned value
Int => common integer signed value
uInt => common integer unsigned value
Long => large integer signed value
uLong => large integer unsigned value
Float => common float signed value
In general, Int and Long are the same unless USE_BIG_NUMBERS
is defined, not suggested unless you are on a DEC Alpha (the
only processor yet which supports full 64bit words). Float
by default is 32 bits, unless USE_BIG_FLOATS is defined. This
option is not yet fully supported, so dont try it.
* Added cruft to configuration script, now checks for type sizes
(used in the above typedefs) and byte order testing, which may
be used later to keep the byte order in a binarydb the same
(allowing for better cross-platform distribution of a binarydb).
Should also run makedepend if it can find it.
* Pulled some of the common string utilities (matching, frobbing,
etc, such as strsed and their ilk) into strutil.c, need to still
hook all operators into them.
* Fixed a bug in decompiling constant floats in a method, they were
actually stored and evaluated correctly, but when @listed they
were not printed correctly.
1.0-[56] [26-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* I regressed from patch five back to patch four, due to some changes
which ended up being incorrect. The updated source became patch 6.
* changed how natives are handled (again), they now _MUST_ call
pop_native_stack() (Macro'd to CLEAN_STACK()) before native_pushing
a value and returning. This cleans up the args list and cleans
up the method call info (handled in methods with frame_return()).
* -s option added for cache WIDTHxDEPTH definition at execution time
* prepare_to_modify() in each data type should now be [data]_prep(),
and is globally available (some natives need these).
* destroy() should not take args, I forgot to change it earlier
* Forgot to #include <sys/time.h> for gettimeofday() in genesis.c
* Added '*' characters to pad and precision in strfmt(), like in
standard printf()'s.
* Fixed strfmt(), it was dying on '%%' => '%' escapes.
1.0-4 [26-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Maintenance
* 'compile()' now is a clone of 'add_method()', when the full
parse-tree capabilities are available they will be different.
* changed calls to 'time()' to use 'gettimeofday()', most modern
OS's wrap time() around this anyway.
* added 'user()' and 'set_user()'.
1.0-3 [22-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed a bug in decompiling -- ++ += -= etc, they assumed the
variable was always a local variable, this bombed when using
an object variable.
* Textdb compiling blasted method code if it was a native method,
this was an oversight on my behalf.
* tweaked malloc.c a touch
1.0-2 [21-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* the change to backup() assumed files were always the same, which
they are not (it depends upon the dbm implementation you are using),
changed backup() to use readdir() to read the directory.
1.0-1 [20-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Bug fix: uppercase/lowercase and their native equivalents, and
native .capitalize() were not duplicating strings correctly
(sometimes causing a segv, if used in the wrong situation).
Created the string function 'string_dup_or_copy' for this
situation, where you must have your own copy of the string
(selfish bastard).
* Changed it to accept both '?:' and '?|' for conditional, looks
like we have gone the full circle on this one. It decompiles
to '?:'.
* Fixed method expression calls again, I seem to have lost
the change from 0.2-1, so I did it again.
* Include our own malloc for those who wish a nice implementation.
Code is from Poul-Henning Kamp.
* upgraded backup() to be more efficient
1.0-0 [17-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* Bug fix, "xxxx".native() caused a segmentation violation, the
problem was mine, I wasn't cleaning up the stack correctly after
completing a native method call.
0.4-4 [16-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* last function change to get the math functions to sit correctly,
'log()' has been changed to 'dblog()', and the logarithmic float
function is 'log()'.
0.4-3 [16-Apr-96] Brandon Gillespie
* This release is 1.0 alpha
* The following functions have been removed, because their native
counterparts now work:
hostname()
ip()
status()
next_objnum()
version()
strftime()
encode()
decode()
0.4-2 [] Brandon Gillespie
* Native methods
0.4-1 [] Brandon Gillespie
0.4-0 [] Brandon Gillespie
0.3-9 [8-Mar-96] Brandon Gillespie
more, but I forget, lots of bug squishing
0.3-8 [20-Feb-96] Brandon Gillespie
* changed bind_port() and open_connection() to use the current object,
rather than specifying the object as a second argument.
0.3-7 [20-Feb-96] Brandon Gillespie
* bug fixes, yipee
* finalized command-line syntax
0.3-4~6 [Feb-96]: Brandon Gillespie
* many bug fixes
0.3-3 [30-Jan-96]: Brandon Gillespie
* completed file ops
fopen()
fstat() => [bytes,blocks,type,mode,owner,group,last access times]
fchmod()
fmkdir()
frmdir()
files() => (files in a directory)
fremove()
frename()
fclose()
fseek()
feof()
fwrite()
fread()
file() => (basic file info on the file bound to this object)
fflush()
* tinkered with textdb.c a bit, changed how 'name' directive works.
* changed 'chparents()' to be object oriented (using 'this()' as the
object parents are changing on).
0.3-2 [18-Jan-96]: Dancer
* C functions write_long()/read_long()/size_long() replaced with
non-byteorder caring functions -- they are a nice idea, but unstable.
Someone should work on a solid version of these.
* Fixed some problems in textdb.c (sometimes $root and $sys would
get axed, hacked a more standard COPY def for strings.
* crufted up panic()
0.3-1 [ -Jan-96]: Brandon Gillespie
* Converted all occurances of 'dbref' to 'objnum' (respectively)
For standardization with 'objname' (change 'dbref symbols to
'objnum symbols).
* function changes:
get_dbref() => lookup()
next_dbref() => next_objnum()
todbref() => toobjnum()
[new] => objnum()
add_parameter() => add_var()
del_parameter() => del_var()
parameters() => variables()
compile() => add_method()
list_method() => decompile()
(Note: these last two will eventually accept and
manipulate parse tree's)
[changed] => compile() (currently a null function)
[new] => get_method() (currently a null function)
method_args() => method_info()
size() (Now accepts data as well as nothing)
data() (returns all data on this, or you can
specify an ancestor to get specifics).
callers() => stack()
load() (removed)
echo() => cwrite()
echo_file() => cwritef()
[new] => connection() (returns [readable,writable,dead])
timestamp() => (removed,
replace with strftime("%d %h %y %H:%M")
0.3-0 [14-Dec-95]: Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Regexp didn't release reference to the integer pairs, causing a
minor leak each time a match was called. Unfortunately, commands
like @display and @show called regexp matches hundreds of times,
resulting in bloat during intensive programming. (Miroslav)
* textdb.c completed, mostly 1.0 format compliant. Many changes are
involved in this.
* object names are now stored in the object structure as well as
in the lookup table (for #num -> $name conversions) (Brandon)
+ add_objname(symbol, dbref) removed, is now set_objname(symbol)
(for the current object). For security, bind set_objname() to
$root and have .set_objname() handle permissions.
+ del_objname() added, this will remove the object name.
+ objname() added.
0.2-10 [19-Nov-95]: Brandon Gillespie
* cleanup of quick 2-9 release which had things wrong. Also fixed
a minor bug in dump.c (found by Gregory D Lewis
<glewis@maths.adelaide.edu.au>). Updated some of the note-*
documents.
0.2-9 []: Brandon Gillespie
* cleanup
0.2-8 [24-Oct-95]: Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed buf_to_veil_packets() and buf_from_veil_packets()
* Forgot to remove a temporary hack to fix a bug a while back.
This was causing it to write an object to disk every time it
was removed from the cache, not just when it was dirty.
0.2-7 [22-Oct-95]: Brandon Gillespie
* Fixed a bug in execute.c, would SEGV if method access was
anything other than driver or public and the driver called
the method.
0.2-6 [21-Oct-95]: Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Added file base routines (Brandon).
* Multiple connections to the same object are no longer allowed,
an old connection is booted when a new one starts, on that object.
This is a rare case anyway (due to bad coding in-db), and should
be a transparent change (Brandon).
* Found major memory leak in method_free (Miroslav).
0.2-5 [12-Oct-95]: Brandon
* Fixed problems in argument handling with genesis, other
cleanups (nice generic terminology).
0.2-4 []: Brandon
* damn, forgot what I changed.
0.2-3 []: Brandon
* Fixed long-time bug in lowercase and uppercase, they were calling
prepare_to_modify, unnecessarily, which was causing problems.
* Created Cold Process Controller (control). Control will
be the process run, and will fork the driver or coldcc. Once
running, it will also connect to the driver (shared mem or
pipes) for running blocked or forked tasks (name lookups and
execute, for now).
* Created coldcc, which will compile a binary db from text and
will also decompile a binary to text. This functionality will
be removed from the driver. Coldcc will also have added
functionality.
0.2-2 [23-Sep-95]: Dancer
* fixed many places where objects were not marked dirty and they
should be.
* fixed a bug in task scheduling (execute.c:task_delete())
0.2-1 [20-Sep-95]: Brandon, Dancer
* Caching problems worked on, code by Dancer (help from Miroslav)
* Pile allocation fixed (Dancer)
* Bug in bind/unbind function fixed, uses symbols uniformely now
* Changed data_tostr() literal strings (Brandon)
"<list>" -> "[list]"
"<frob>" -> "<frob>"
"<dict>" -> "#[dict]"
"<buffer>" -> "`[buffer]"
* Fixed a bug with expression method evaluations and data
references for objects, ala: "string".('explode)(); (Brandon)
* fixed strfmt() bug (big evil one) (Brandon)
* random cleanup (Brandon)
0.2-0 [11-Sep-95]: Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Added Floating Point support (Miroslav)
* Fixed memory leak in match_pattern() (Miroslav)
* New Function: method() (returns method in current frame)
* New Function: backup(), similar to binary_dump(), but it copies
the binary directory before making it dirty again.
* Fixed bug with decompiling frob's
* New Function: buffer_from_string() (newlines -> \n )
* New Function: buffer_to_string() (newlines -> \n )
* Changed compiling escapes in strings. Previously it would eat
any single slash, and would escape the second character. Now
it does not eat the slash if the second char is not a double
quote, or a slash. This was causing a problem as you would
have to submit regexp escapes as "str \\$object" rather than
"str \$object" as they should be. It works fine now.
* Rearranged files in anticipation of adding object modules and
native methods.
* Added method states and method flags. Method states can be one
of the following:
public (default)
private (callable only by this)
protected (sendable only by this)
root (callable only by $root)
driver (callable only by the driver)
Method flags can be any of the following:
disallow_overrides (same as before)
synchronized (will be used with multi-threading)
locked (method cannot be changed after this is set)
native (the method is native code, will come in later)
* New Function: method_flags() returns the method flags as a list
boolean integers. This will change to a bitwise field, once
bitwise operators are added.
* New Function: method_state() returns the method state as a symbol
* New Function: set_method_state() sets the method state
* New Function: set_method_state() sets the method state
0.1-5 [7-Aug-95]: Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic, Jeff Kesselman
* New Function: clear_var() (Brandon, Miroslav)
* New Functions: localtime(), strftime() and timestamp() (Brandon)
* New Function: buffer_tail() (Jeff Kesselman)
* textdump read/write: ignores variables with invalid parents (Brandon)
* New Functions: stat_file(), read_file() (Brandon)
read_file() will eventually work the way it is supposed to,
(line by line) rather than the entire file in one buffer (which
is as it works now).
* Added file management routines, seperate development source
for developers, distribution source is a modified version of
the development source. (Brandon)
0.1-4 [16-May-95]: Brandon Gillespie, Miroslav Silovic
* Fixed "E" in "aeiou" bug (Brandon Gillespie)
* Fixed ugly nasty bug in function binding (Brandon Gillespie)
* Fixed regexp bug, had backwards logic (Miroslav Silovic)
* Signal handler now catches SIGCHLD and does what it should (so
no more <defunct> processes, hopefully). (Brandon Gillespie)
* Signal handler resets signals after each catch, for SYSV systems
(I don't believe BSD systems need to do this, but I could be
wrong). (Brandon Gillespie)
0.1-3 [13-Mar-95]: Robert de Forest, Brandon Gillespie
* assignments changed to expressions (Robert de Forest)
* dynamic function binding (Brandon Gillespie)
Before this change a select set of functions were hardcode
bound to the system object. Now, all functions are unbound
and may be called by any object. Two additional functions
have been added (bind_function and unbind_function). The
function bind_function() accepts two arguments. The first
is a string representing a function to be bound. The second
is an object in the database to which the function will be
bound. The function unbind_function() accepts one argument,
which is a string representing the function to be unbound.
When a function is unbound it may be called by any object in
the database.
* signal handling cleanup (Brandon Gillespie)
* To settle a long dispute, one set of function names were changed
again:
get_objnum() => get_dbref()
add_dbref() => add_objname()
del_dbref() => del_objname()
next_objnum() => next_dbref()
toobj() => todbref()
Yes, this is redundant, lets hope its the last time.
0.1-2 [03-Mar-95]: Brandon Gillespie
More cleanup, fixed some Signal problems for Linux
0.1-1 [02-Mar-95]: Brandon Gillespie
Cleanup to configure script, added USE_GETRUSAGE flag
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0.1-0 [01-Mar-95]: Brandon Gillespie
0.0-3 [..-...-..]: Brandon Gillespie
* added signal handler
* changed main loop structure, previously:
1. flush_defunct connections/records
2. handle all input and output events:
1. [io]wait for something to happen
2. handle connection input and output
3. handle new and pending connections
3. handle heartbeat
4. run paused tasks
now:
1. flush_defunct connections/records
2. [io]wait for something to happen
3. handle connection input
4. handle new and pending connections
5. handle heartbeat
6. handle connection output
7. run paused tasks
* changed a few function names:
todbref() => toobj()
get_name() => get_objnum()
disconnect() => close_connection()
conn_assign() => reassign_connection()
run_script() => execute()
bind() => bind_port()
unbind() => unbind_port()
connect() => open_connection()
set_heartbeat_freq() => set_heartbeat()
set_name() => add_dbref()
del_name() => del_dbref()
db_top() => next_objnum()
* added functions:
status() -- system status (man rusage)
load() -- system load, define CHECK_LOAD
in config.h to use. Note: this
is not a good implementation.
mtime() -- microseconds (man gettimeofday)
* fixed strsub() bug (strsub("", "", ""))
* Random code cleanup and rewrites
0.0-1 [..-...-..]: Brandon Gillespie
fixed some problems with configure and the server testing
script
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ColdMUD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.12-1 (4-Nov-94): Brandon Gillespie / Alex Stewart
Updated Documentation, created a baseline configure
script, added bin/ and it's relative scripts,
cleaned up file heirarchy. Added write_err(),
which goes to stderr (same as write_log before),
write_log() goes to stdout and is (currently)
only called in op_log(). Alex Stewart fixed
compile warnings. Major additions of this patch
level include the file tree and the configure
script system.
----
0.12 (unknown)
Jordan took 0.11-4 (which included the 0.10-3 patches) and
added suspend()/resume() and pause().
----
0.11 (unknown)
Last source from Greg. Includes removal of dict_del_elem(),
dict_add_elem(), error_arg() and error_str() as well as added
functionality to traceback().
----
0.10-3 (5/22/94)
Bug fixes:
(0.10-1) Loading DB error fixed (Robert de Forest/Crag)
(0.10-1) Catches to mod by 0 and random 0 (Zachary)
(0.10-2) ticks_remaining() added (Robert de Forest/Crag)
(0.10-3) hostname() and ip() added (merlin)
bind() fixed (Greg Hudson)
dict error fixed (??)
LOG_TIMES added in config.h (Brandon Gillespie/Lynx)
0.10 (1/3/94)
Bug fixes:
(0.9-1) Error messages for some admin functions
(0.9-2) Error checking in op_index() was wrong.
(0.9-3) explode() didn't work on multi-character
token separators.
(0.9-4) Checking for changing root's parents in
op_chparents() was wrong.
(0.9-5) explode() now checks for 0-length separators.
(0.9-6) tostr() on dictionaries was slightly broken.
(0.9-7) echo() returned 0 instead of 1.
(0.9-8) dict_del() was corrupting dictionaries.
(0.9-9) Deleting an object didn't mark the db as
dirty, although it modifies the db, so that
you could have a "clean" database with missing
objects.
(0.9-10) data() was leaking object reference counts.
(0.9-11) Frob keys in dictionaries could be lost.
(0.9-12) class() was leaking dbref reference counts.
(0.9-13) op_message() error used a discarded
identifier.
(0.9-14) delete() was failing on sublists of lists.
(0.9-15) While creating a dictionary, checking for
duplicates was faulty and could produce an
inconsistent hash table.
Regular expression matching is now case-insensitive by
default. An optional third argument can be specified
to make it case-sensitive.
Whitespace is now stripped at the end of text-dump lines, so
trailing tabs and spaces are irrelevant. (This was
biting a number of people.) Also, unprintables are
stripped from text dump lines.
explode() now takes an optional third argument indicating that
it should include blank tokens if there is a sequence
of two or more token separators or if there is a token
separator at the beginning or end of the string.
Added error_str().
Fixed some compatibility problems with compilation, and made
it more palatable to compile under BSD 4.3.
Started using SO_REUSEADDR to help with binding to the port
random() is now 1-based.
Added buffer type. The 'parse' message now comes with a buffer,
instead of with a line. echo() takes a buffer instead
of a string.
Text dumps now write to "textdump.new" and rename onto
"textdump", to avoid problems with machines crashing
during text dumps.
Now performing sanity checking to catch object reference count
leaks.
Dbrefs are now numeric; $foobar is a "name" which evaluates to a
dbref. The text dump format has a 'name' command to set
names, and there's also set_name(), del_name(), and
get_name(). The functions toint() and todbref() have new
behavior.
Added db_top(). It will go away in 0.11 or 0.12, though, so it's
not documented.
Added dict_add_elem() and dict_del_elem().
0.9 (November 25, 1993)
Bug fixes:
(0.8.1-1) Output wasn't being flushed on shutdown()
(0.8.1-3) has_ancestor() wasn't working
(0.8.1-4) Some minor uninitialized memory problems
(0.8.1-5) A few fairly serious memory leaks
Added match_regexp().
Frob reps can now be lists as well as dictionaries.
substring() changed to substr() for consistency
The 'connect' message sent to receiver objects for ports now
has two arguments, the remote address and the remote
port.
Added task_id()
The 'connect' message sent to receiver objects for connect()
now has one argument, the task ID which called
connect(). The 'failed' message sent to receiver
objects for connect() now has two arguments; the first
is the task ID which called connect(), and the second
is the error code of the failure.
0.8.1 (November 21, 1993)
Bug fixes:
(0.8-1) chparents(), destroy(), conn_assign() were
leaking stack frames.
(0.8-2) Reading in frobs from a text dump caused crashes
0.8 (November 15, 1993)
Bug fixes:
(0.7.1-1) .foo() was decompiling to this().foo()
(0.7.1-2) Method search bug
Added data().
Changed frob construction syntax to <class, rep>.
Added optional third argument to throw() and an error_arg() to
retrieve it.
0.7.1 (November 12, 1993)
Bug fixes:
(0.7-2) Memory leak in discarding identifiers
(0.7-3) Write buffer wasn't flushed before disconnecting
(0.7-4) Crashes under Linux during text dumps
(0.7-5) Compile-time portability problem with db.c
(0.7-6) Crashes under Linux while traversing object db
(0.7-7) Portability problems with NEXTSTEP
(0.7-8) [@a, ...] optimization was buggy
(0.7-9) Line counter failed on catch statement
(0.7-11) union(foo, []) was leaking stack frames
Rewrote lexer in C, to avoid lex/flex portability problems.
Improved portability to SVR4 systems.
0.7 (November 2, 1993)
Bug fixes:
The delete() function was leaving its list in an incorrect
state, causing memory corruption.
A text_dump() immediately after another text_dump()
resulted in a blank file, since the current search
index wasn't getting updated.
The current search index wasn't getting saved on binary
dumps.
Removing a method while it was running could have caused
crashes.
chparents() was crashing. It also wasn't checking for
empty parents lists, a security hole.
The method search was scanning the parents in the wrong
direction.
replace() was mutating its list argument by mistake.
String comparison was severely wrong wrt substrings.
Dictionary comparison and frob comparison were wrong.
binary/clean file now stores version number (along with current
search index), so that the server won't try to load a
binary database with a different version number.
Revised documentation to reflect lack of pass-to, and made other
improvements.
this, definer, caller, sender now functions, not variables.
Added sugar for '.foobar(...)' --> this().foobar(...), and for
@[...] --> this()@[...] (s/@/$/p; see below).
Optimized a = [@a, ...] (transparent to users).
Frob start token changed from @[ to $[ to remove conflict with
splice operator.
Added uppercase(), lowercase(), case-sensitive strcmp(), and added
size() to return the current object's size.
Reorganized the database code to avoid including ndbm.h in a
_POSIX_SOURCE'd file (was causing trouble on BSDi systems).
0.6 (October 16, 1993)
Bug fixes:
Type errors involving dictionaries and frobs were wrong.
Case ranges failed badly, causing crashes
Adding inappropriate values also caused crashes
In fact, a lot of opcodes had this problem. I've checked
them pretty thoroughly and fixed a bunch.
Added min(), max(), abs().
Added connect(addr, port, dbref), starts connecting to a remote
host. dbref receives a "connect" or "failed" message
when the connection finishes.
Added heartbeat, and administrative operation set_heartbeat_freq().
Eliminated pass-to from the server; only inspecific pass is
supported.
0.5.1 (October 9, 1993)
Bug fixes:
Reading in dictionaries from a binary dump didn't set
the reference count, causing crashes.
Likewise duplicating dictionaries.
A bug in the compiler was causing the decompiler to put
`callers' at the end of variable declarations.
0.5 (October 6, 1993)
Bug fixes:
Some primitives (including setadd() and setremove())
were corrupting lists.
Error messages for index() and sublist(), and for
getting an invalid object variable.
Truth test for strings and lists was wrong.
create() wasn't restricted to $sys.
The directory "binary" didn't have x permissions.
Line-number counting was wrong in some cases.
rethrow() dumped core.
Binary db output from dbpack.c is no longer binary, although
ndbm is still icky that way, so no big deal.
ancestors() is back in.
Added union()
Optimized more cases of 'foo = <expr including foo>' to avoid
unnecessary copies. (Especially helpful for the
following.)
Dictionaries. #[[key, value], [key, value]] creates a
dictionary. dict["foo"] indexes into the keys.
for i in (dict) iterates over the associations
[key, value]. dict_keys(dict) retrieves a list of
the keys. dict_add(dict, key, value) returns a
dictionary with an added key and value.
dict_del(dict, key) returns a dictionary with the
association for that key removed.
dict_contains(dict, key) determines if a key exists in
a dictionary.
Frob representations are now dictionaries, not lists.
Got rid of 'player'. Also, 'sender' now refers to what 'caller'
used to refer to. 'caller' now refers to the dbref of
the object which defines the method which sent the
message, and 'definer' now refers to the dbref of the
object which defines the current method.
connect and disconnect messages now get sent to the connection
objects, rather than the system object.
0.4.1 (September 19, 1993)
Lots of stupid bugs (including some compile-time bugs) fixed
which got past me.
0.4 (September 19, 1993)
Identifier usage is now local to objects, so the global
identifier table doesn't grow with the database.
dbrefs are now symbolic, not numbers. You represent them with
$foo, not #xx. Where #-1 was used, 0 (the integer) is
now used.
toliteral() now does what tostr() used to. tostr() now does
translations more conveniently for some purposes. In
particular, dbrefs, symbols, and error codes get
translated to their names as strings, not as literals.
Strings are unaffected by tostr(). lists go to
"<list>".
The printed representations of non-identifier dbrefs, symbols,
and error codes are now $"foo", '"foo", and ~"foo"
respectively. The parser can read this.
Named arguments. In addition to the 'var' declaration, there
is an 'arg' declaration, which specifies the argument
names. "arg foo, bar, baz;" indicates three arguments
named foo, bar, and baz. "arg foo, [bar];" indicates
one argument named foo, and then any number of arguments
following it, which will be stuffed into a list stored
in a variable named bar. Method calls fail if you pass
a method too few or too many arguments.
Multiple server ports. The command line currently takes one
argument, a database directory. The database is
responsible for binding server sockets using bind();
unbind() lets you unbind a server socket. When you
bind(), you give the server an object for handling the
connections.
Tracebacks improved. An explanation string only shows up on the
first line of the traceback, since the remaining messages
are generally not useful, and serve mostly to make the
lines too long. Errors generated by throw() result in
more understandable tracebacks now, I think. rethrow()
now takes only one argument (an error code).
foo.bar is no longer an acceptable abbreviation for foo.bar().
You can now append lists using the + operator.
The case of 'foo = foo + whatever' is now optimized so that
unnecessary string and list copies don't take place. The
case of 'foo = [@foo, whatever]' is not optimized,
however.
Binary database files are all in the directory 'binary', to
allow for different implementations of ndbm. I still need
to redo the database layer myself, but that will wait.
No more ancestor precedence lists. (Purely internal change.)
Added find_method() and find_next_method().
Added a new data type, frob, and the built-in function class().
Non-overridable methods. Add a `disallow_overrides;' declaration at
the top of your method and it cannot be overridden by
children.
Removed spew_method().
If I didn't do this before, create(), destroy(), and chparents() are
now administrative functions which take arguments. setvar()
and getvar() are now set_var() and get_var(). rmvar() and
vars() don't exist any more; instead, there is add_parameter(),
parameters(), and del_parameter(). Methods refer to variables
through the parameters of the object the method is defined on,
so the variable namespace is different for each ancestor of an
object.
0.3 (July 29, 1993)
Went to a global symbol table that grows in memory with the
size of the database. I may disk-base this in the
future.
Rewrote error-handling code.
Default return value is now the current object's dbref,
instead of 0.
We now use a global identifier table. Should improve speed
signficantly. It does mean that the process size grows
with the db, though, albeit slowly. I can make tradeoffs
later if this becomes a problem.
Binary database management is different now.
version() now returns a number, not a string.
Added toerr(), run_script().
Split length() into strlen() and listlen().
Added catch statement, critical expression, propagate expression.
Added error(), traceback(), throw(), and rethrow().
? : changed to ? |, since it was going to happen anyway.
There's no longer a configuration file. You can still use -p
to specify the port number. For now, the cache width
and cache depth are hardcoded; they will hopefully be
runtime-settable eventually.
0.2.1 (June 8, 1993)
Fixed several bugs in binary dump reading, and got it to work
with Linux.
Fixed match_pattern() function.
Fixed quoted wildcard matches in match_template() function.
Fixed pad() function.
Fixed setremove() function.
Am now making sure to close the dbm file to force consistency.
0.2 (June 5, 1993)
Fixed a bug in flush_defunct_connections() in io.c
Fixed a bug in the decompiler in if-else unparsing, and another
one in expr-message unparsing
Fixed binary dumping
Fixed strsub()
Relaxed the requirement that compound statements and methods
must contain at least one statment
Fixed text dumps
Added version(), random(), time(), ctime()
echo_file() now looks in a "text" directory.
--port is now -p
-d option changes into a directory before running
destroy() now reparents orphans to the destroyed object's
parents.
destroy() now returns E_PERM for system and root objects.
Fixed an object reference count bug in object_find_method() in
object.c.
Fixed op_spawn(), which wasn't discarding an object reference
count properly.
0.1 (June 3, 1993)
Initial release